What Cancer Guidelines Don’t Tell You




The Scope Radio show

Summary: With three sets of breast cancer screening guidelines giving <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/01/31/mammogram-screening-u-s-preventative-task-force">conflicting sets of recommendations</a>, it’s no wonder that patients and physicians are confused. A new study shows that adding to the confusion are the guidelines themselves. Senior author <a href="http://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2015/11/Fagerlin_population_health_chair_2015.php">Angie Fagerlin</a>, Ph.D. sciences says that more often than not, cancer screening guidelines either leave out important information about the benefits, or harms, of certain recommendations. She talks about what the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26917630">study</a> reveals about guidelines for many types of cancers, and what’s next. <a href="http://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2016/02/Benefits-harms-cancer-screening.php">Learn more.</a>